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Re:The Top Shelf Principle (2019) by Etheryte on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:18AM (#28127032)
This is about as useful as saying "How about you just eat less?" to someone who is struggling with their weight — that is, not useful at all. There's a reason only 15% of overweight people manage to make any progress towards weight loss, never mind any meaningful progress [0]: changing habits is hard, and as a society we haven't found a good way to systematically address the problem. Condescending quips do little to help in that regard.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539812/

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Re:The Top Shelf Principle (2019) by nottorp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:49AM (#28128156)
Isn't "How about you just eat less?" just a particular case of exercising self control?

> changing habits is hard, and as a society we haven't found a good way to systematically address the problem

Don't think there is one. Just case by case solutions. But they all boil down to finding the motivation to control a harmful behaviour.

Come to think of it, the person in TFA managed to exercise enough self control to turn off their notifications :)

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Re:The Top Shelf Principle (2019) by the_sleaze9 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:24AM (#28128522)
Not being able to understand why what you're saying is impractical (and just plain rude) is itself indicative of a mental fault.

Are you on the spectrum? If you are, why don't you just stop being on the spectrum? :)

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